連濁
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
| 連 | 濁 |
Etymology
連 (れん, ren, “continuous, sequential”) + 濁 (だく, daku, “voicing”).
Noun
連濁 (hiragana れんだく, romaji rendaku)
- (linguistics) a morphological change of a non-initial syllable of many Japanese words from an unvoiced sound to a voiced one (more precisely, a change to the sound of corresponding kana with a 濁点).